Federation Plaques

The plaque of the original Enterprise. Starfleettended towards more simple designs in the 2260s.

The Enterprise-A plaque, showing basicinformation about the vessel's construction.

The Enterprise-B plaque included names of manyof the Starfleet personnel who built the ship.

The Enterprise-D plaque remained essentiallyidentical to that of the Enterprise-B.

The Enterprise-E plaque.

The Excelsior plaque shows the ship's motto,"No matter where you go, there you are..."

The Nebula class USS Sutherland's plaque bears
themotto "There will be an answer, let it be..."

The Intrepid class Voyager's plaque bears the
motto"For I dipt into the future, far as Human eye
could see,saw the Vision of the World, and all the wonder
thatcould be..." a quote by Alfred Tennyson.

The Defiant plaque. The first of her class, the
Defiant bearsthe motto "All I ask is a tall ship, and a star
to steer her by..."from John Masefield's 'Sea Fever'.

The Prometheus plaque. Another class ship, her
motto is"All the world's a stage and all the men and
women merelyplayers, they have their exits and their entrances
and oneman in his life lays many parts; his act being
seven stages.".

Another Defiant class ship, the USS Valiant.The motto is "We set sail on this new sea becausethere is new knowledge to be gained and newrights to be won." by John F. Kennedy.

Even smaller ships can have a plaque. This is
fromthe Cousteau, the Captain's yacht of the Enterprise-E.The motto reads "The future is in the hands of
those whoexplore - and fromall the beauty they discover
whilecrossing perpetually receding frontiers, they
developfor nature and for Humankind an infinite force."